TRS Fee a Business Cost, Not Fee, Say Groups for Hearing Impaired
Consumer groups for the hearing impaired repeated opposition to carriers listing telecom relay services along with other regulatory fees in a line item on customer bills. The groups, meeting Monday with staff from the FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau’s…
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front office and Consumer Policy Division Disability Rights Office, said TRS is an “accessibility mandate” and for carriers “should be a cost of doing business, not a separate fee,” said a posting Wednesday in docket 03-123. The National Association of the Deaf, Hearing Loss Association of America, Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and others responded to an ITTA petition seeking a declaratory ruling (see 1902210053).